Fall 2022 Ag and Innovation Internships Concludes

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For the past 10 weeks, 11 interns were engaged and hosted at 7 companies within the Agriculture and Technology sectors.

The interns worked a total of 1,650+ hours total over the 10 weeks. We are so proud of their development in career readiness, and their acquiring of other new skills.

Participating Schools: Baldwin High School, Kulanihakoi High School, Lahainaluna High School, Molokai High School, and Seabury Hall.

We Mahalo our host companies who so graciously welcomed our students to learn at their work. We also Mahalo the mentors who took their time to share their knowledge and skills.

Host Companies: Lahaina Animal Farm, ‘Aina Momona, Maui Ku’ia Estate Chocolate, Noho’ana Farms, ‘Aina Pulapula, Waipono Farm, and STEMworks.

We also want to Mahalo our sponsors who help this program continue to support our interns.

Sponsors: County of Maui, ‘Aina Momona, and Maui Economic Development Board.

We look forward to our Spring Ag Business & Technology Internship. Application: Spring 2023 Ag Business & Technology Internship Application (google.com)

For any questions about our Ag Program at STEMworks, please contact our coordinator Britney (britney@medb.org).

STEMworks Celebrates CS Ed Week! December 5-11, 2022

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Happy Computer Science Education Week! STEMworks is excited to celebrate all of our continued efforts to inspire K-12 students to learn Computer Science.

Computer Science Education (CS Ed) Week this week, December 5-11. In celebration of CS Ed week - STEMworks participates in "The Hour of Code" a one-hour introduction to computer science, using fun tutorials to show that anybody can learn the basics - it is celebrated world wide.

STEMworks has planned a few Hour of Code events that you are welcome to be a part of!

Monday Dec 5 is open to all in grades K-5 from 2:30-3:30pm. Students will participate in an unplugged activity (computers not required! But activity papers need to be printed) "Everybody Dance!". Zoom registration link: https://bit.ly/STEMworksHoCElementary

Tuesday Dec 6 is open to all in grades 6-8 from 3-4pm. Students will participate in an online activity (computers/tablets required). Zoom registration link: https://bit.ly/STEMworksHoCIntermediate

Finally on Friday Dec 9 students will participate in Minecraft: Escape Estate! Students in Grades 2 - 12 are welcome. Minecraft Education Edition is required to participate. Zoom registration link: https://bit.ly/STEMworksHoCMinecraft

Maui County Healthcare Exploration Day at UH John A Burn's School of Medicine

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This past Friday, November 18, 2022 - our STEMworks team hosted 20 Maui County High School students in partnership with JABSOM Area Health Education Center (AHEC) to a tour at JABSOM.

Our students flew in the early morning with their teacher from Maui, Lana’i, and Moloka’i.

After a tour of JABSOM, our students were able to participate in hands on learning including a Simulation Lab with a real life scenario, practiced taking vital signs, and an arm casting practice. Our students were also exposed to 5 different Industry Professionals including: Dr. Tom of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Wee a Pediatrician, Jesse Thompson doing 3D Printing in the Healthcare field, Dr. Mashima from Speech Pathology, and Devon Cataldi of the UH JABSOM Cancer center research.

Mahalo to all who made this day a success, our friends at JABSOM AHEC, the food service staff at Pura Sina (at JABSOM), and the teachers who came along with their students. We hope to host future Healthcare Exploration Days.

September STEMworks Solutions Challenge winner! In partnership with Legacy for Life

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Today we announced the winner of our STEMworks Solutions Challenge Winner in Partnership with Legacy of Life. Leesa of Mililani High School took home First Place! Her Solution, the Organ Recovery Time Calculator, is a website that automates the calculation of time between each step of the organ recovery process from the time the surgery starts to the time the organ departs on a flight to a potential receiver.

Using several different APIs the Organ Recovery Time Calculator will allow the Legacy of Life team to select a flight, identify the airport and hospital, and calculate the time each step needs to be started for a successful organ recovery and donation.

Leesa will receive a paid 6-week internship with the Legacy of Life team to develop and test her solution, as well as an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset loaded with a 3D Organ VR Experience. Congratulations Leesa and Mahalo to STEMworks Facilitator Mr. Kikugawa

Mahalo to all who participated, our facilitators, and our partner Legacy for Life.

An Exciting Space Exploration Day on September 30, 2022

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This past Friday, September 30, the STEMworks team with support of the AMOS Conference Team hosted 120 Maui County Middle schoolers and their teachers to Space Exploration Day at the Wailea Beach Resort.

The Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, September 27-30, 2022, is the premier technical conference in the nation devoted to space situational awareness/space domain awareness.

Our students started their day with an engaging talk from Astronaut Scott “Scooter” Altman. Astronaut Scooter Altman showcased many fun pictures and videos from his 4 trips to space! With a lively Q&A session with him to follow.

We then walked around the AMOS exhibit hall, where our students visited with 4 of the 9 participating exhibitors. Mahalo to our participating exhibitors for engaging talks and activities for our students.

What a whirlwind of a day for our team, students, high school volunteers, and teachers – Mahalo to all for making the day happen!

Participating Middle Schools: Maui Waena Intermediate, Lokelani Intermediate, Lana’i Elementary and High School, Hawaii Technology Academy – Maui, Lahaina Intermediate, and Moloka’i Middle School.

Participating Exhibitors: AFRL & AFOSR, The Boeing Company, CACI, Civil Air Patrol, COMSPOC, Institute for Astronomy (UH), Lockheed Martin, Privateer, and SAIC.

STEMworks Solutions Challenge PD - Mahalo Summer Rankin!

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The STEMworks team wanted to offer our big Mahalo to Summer Rankin who spoke with our STEMworks Solution Challenge for September’s Professional Development that was held yesterday, September 22.

Summer is a Senior Lead Data Scientist in the Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) at Booz Allen Hamilton in their Honolulu Office. Her projects often involve deep learning, signal processing, NLP, anomaly detection, and performance measurement.

It was a treat to hear from Summer about her journey to Data Science and her helpful insight to our students for creating solutions for the Legacy for Life Challenge.

Mahalo Summer!

For more opportunities like this, please keep an eye out for our October STEMworks Soutions Challenge involving Kama’aina Tech Solutions!

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! October STEMworks Solutions Challenge

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Registration for our next EDA Funded STEMworks Solutions Challenge is now open!

Background: For this challenge, we have partnered with Kama’aina Tech Solutions, a local IT company which specializes in providing IT and Cybersecurity solutions to Hawaii businesses. Both KTS and STEMworks are partners on a statewide IT sector partnership, which has determined that we need more local IT/Cybersecurity talent to fill the current and projected IT & Cybersecurity jobs across the state.

Challenge: Students will have the unique opportunity to learn more about the state of the IT workforce in Hawaii, and using entrepreneurship strategies, develop a solution in the form of a business proposal. Students will consider the following questions: "What can you do to inspire young people to seek IT careers here in Hawaii?" "How can we create a more supportive culture for IT/Cybersecurity talent in Hawaii?"

Eligibility: This challenge is open to individuals or teams of up to four, currently enrolled in high school from a participating STEMworks school.

Important Dates:

  • Team registrations are due on Wednesday, Oct 5th. Register here: https://bit.ly/SSITCyber

  • On Thursday, Oct. 6th, I'll send out the challenge information packet and professional development schedule. The information packet will provide additional background information, a suggested timeline for completing the challenge, and details regarding what to submit.

  • The Kickoff Event will be held virtually on Monday, Oct. 10th after school. We'll send all the meeting details to the registered participants along with the challenge information packet.

  • The challenge will run from Oct. 10th - Nov. 4th

  • Proposed solutions will be due on Friday, Nov. 4th at 5:00PM

Prizes: The STEMworks Solution winner(s) will be invited to participate in a paid, 6-week internship with KTS to prototype and further develop their solution and will also receive an additional prize (to be revealed later)!

Please let me know if you have any questions!

AMOS Virtual Space Day on September 27

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We are excited to announce our first, virtual, AMOS Space Exploration Day for K-12 Educators! 🚀

Did you know that The Annual Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference (AMOS) is the TOP scientific conference in the field of space situational awareness (SSA)? The future of space-related careers is bright here in Hawaii, and to celebrate this, we'd like to provide you with some resources to help you teach your students about aerospace and optics.

Please join us on Tuesday, September 27th from 3:00PM - 4:30PM to learn more. RSVP Here: http://bit.ly/2022VirtualSpaceDay

Recent Events with STEMworks

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Aloha Scholars!

We at STEMworks are hoping everyone have been easily getting back into their school routines this year, as the end of the first quarter is near.   

It has been a busy start here for STEMworks with the new school year. Our recent kickoff of STEMworks Solutions Challenge for the month of September partnering with Legacy of Life. We have 28 teams signed up – and we are so excited to see what solutions you folks come up with!

The October Solutions Challenge will have an IT and Cybersecurity focus and will be coming up soon. Keep an eye out for email updates!

We also have a fun filled career exploration day at the AMOS conference for Space Day. This event will host over 100 Maui County middle schoolers at the Wailea Marriott. We look forward to seeing you folks soon!

We will be doing our best to keep this page up to date for you folks to check in with. We also ask for your kokua with updates by using of a google form titled “STEMworks Highlights” – we are looking to highlight what is going on in our STEMworks community.

Linked here – https://forms.gle/NHE4NQHRGkCpQPRaA

Mahalo and A Hui Hou until next time!

Your STEMworks Team

Join us virtually for Hour of Code 2021!

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Computer Science Education Week is next week, December 6th through the 12th! This year’s Hour of Code theme is "CS is Everywhere", encouraging students and teachers to explore the relationship that computer science has with different subjects in school, different industries, and even different career paths. By participating in Hour of Code, students will have the opportunity to learn about the many different and exciting applications of Computer Science, and how it is used in various ways to help solve problems, advance research, keep our infrastructure safe and healthy, create art and entertainment, and more!

Join STEMworks on December 8th, 9th, and 10th from 2:30pm-3:30pm for a series of fun coding activities! Registration is required for these events. Please share with your students and encourage them to join, everyone is welcome! 😄

Wednesday 12/8, 2:30-3:30pm

Blocks Jumper: Game Creation

Grades 2+. Learn to create a jumper game with block coding!

Register here: bit.ly/stemworksjumper

Thursday 12/9, 2:30-3:30pm

Save the Forest!

Grades 2+. Create a forest and put out forest fires with code using Microsoft MakeCode Arcade!

Register here: bit.ly/stemworksforest

Friday 12/10, 2:30 - 3:30pm

Minecraft Timecraft

Grades 2+. Travel back in time to save the future using code in Minecraft!

Please note: students will need to have Minecraft Education Edition installed on their device. They will NOT need a license to access the activity, it is free for everyone!

Register here: bit.ly/stemworkstimecraft

Minecraft Education Edition Download: bit.ly/stemworksmcedu

STEMworks™ Hour of Code Events!

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Join us for STEMworks™ Hour of Code events during Computer Science Education Week 2020!

Click the image below to download PDF flyer.

Beginners (Grades 2-12) Minecraft

Wednesday 12/9 2:30 - 3:30pm

Journey through Minecraft with a brand new activity!

Registration Link: bit.ly/stemworksminecraft

Intermediate(Grades 5-12) Codemonkey Banana Tales

Thursday 12/10 2:30 - 3:30pm

Use Python to complete challenges to deliver a banana to a hungry monkey!

Registration Link: bit.ly/stemworksbanana

Advanced (Grades 6-12) World of Python

Friday 12/11 2:30 - 3:30pm

Learn to program by constructing anything in a virtual 3D world!

Registration Link: bit.ly/stemworkspython

Questions? Email anna@medb.org 😄

Hawaii STEM Virtual Conference 2020 Key Note Speaker

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The 11th annual Hawaii STEM Conference is going virtual and will be held May 7-9, 2020. We are excited to announce our key note speaker, Gretchen O’Hara, who is the Vice President of AI Country Strategy & Sustainability Partnership at Microsoft.

As Vice President of AI Country Strategy & Sustainability Partnership, Gretchen is building the path for Microsoft’s US acceleration of its Artificial Intelligence, cloud and sustainability initiative to become
carbon negative by 2030. AI and Sustainability will change and shape how we live, it is through strategic partnerships, innovation, and ecosystem activation that Microsoft will achieve these ambitious goals.

Gretchen is also a passionate advocate for women and girls in STEM and the cloud. She is a co-founder of Women in Cloud (WiC), an organization taking action with global leaders, corporations, and policy-makers
to help create $1 billion in economic access and opportunity by 2030.

To join us at this year’s virtual conference, please register here.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Daily Social Media Activities for You!

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FOLLOW US ON

FACEBOOK: @STEMworksHI

INSTAGRAM: @stemworks @witstem

PINTEREST: @STEMworks Hawaii

  • Maker Mondays - Led by Jaime Kahoohanohano; a STEM maker activity that you can do from home with items you have on hand.

  • Techie: Tuesdays - Led by Erin Franks and Jessica Salva; Coding, AI, Data Science, and techie related news and lessons

  • Wildcard Wednesdays - Led by Katie Taladay; Hands on activities and challenges with chances to win cool tech prizes - often featuring wild animals.

  • Teacher Thursdays - Led by Erin Franks & Jessica Salva; Resources specifically for our Teachers.

  • Sci-Fridays - Led by Katie Taladay; Space and Sci-Fi related STEM activities you can do from home to kick-off the weekend.

STEMworks ESRI GIS Workshop - MAUI

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Learn to GIS

LOCATION: Maui
Baldwin High School 1650 Kaahumanu Ave,
Wailuku, HI 96793
Room: Library, Teachers Workroom

DATE: Tuesday, December 12, 2019
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Lunch on your own
Register online at: http://bit.ly/GISMAUI

*Laptop and mouse required.

No Cost to Educators
Intro to Online Mapping
Learn about GeoInquiries, Basemaps, Storymapping, Layering and more.  Using maps in the classroom helps illustrate geographic context and help connect lessons with real places.  The training will provide GIS activities and resources that can be integrated right into the classroom. 

LEVEL: Beginners, no experience necessary

Presenter: ESRI K-12 Education Manager, Charlie Fitzpatrick

Questions contact: Lalaine Pasion at 808-875-2341 or lalaine@medb.org

STEMworks ESRI GIS Workshop - Hilo

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Learn to GIS

LOCATION: Hilo
Kea’au High School
16-725 Kea'au-Pahoa Road
Kea`au, HI 96749
Room: G111

DATE: Monday, December 16, 2019
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Lunch on your own
Register online at: http://bit.ly/GISHILO

*Laptop and mouse required.

No Cost to Educators
Intro to Online Mapping
Learn about GeoInquiries, Basemaps, Storymapping, Layering and more.  Using maps in the classroom helps illustrate geographic context and help connect lessons with real places.  The training will provide GIS activities and resources that can be integrated right into the classroom. 

LEVEL: Beginners, no experience necessary

Presenter: ESRI K-12 Education Manager, Charlie Fitzpatrick

Questions contact: Lalaine Pasion at 808-875-2341 or lalaine@medb.org

STEMworks™ & Code.org Teacher Professional Development

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TEACHERS! No experience needed! Help Hawaii offer Computer Science to students across the state. Receive training in code.org to support students curriculum throughout the year. Training offered by STEMworks, the Regional Partner of Code.org.

Questions contact: Manda Tong, STEMworks Special Projects Coordinator at manda.tong@medb.org or Denissa Andrade, STEMworks Project Manager at denissa@medb.org